An interactive learning experience, the program challenges thinking and encourages creative discourse about anxiety disorders, OCD, PTSD, and depression in a diverse, multidisciplinary community of professionals involved in practice and research. This highly participatory program features outstanding leaders in the field, who will initiate stimulating discussions that shape new ideas and ways of thinking about the future.

Free registration to the Anxiety and Depression Conference is awarded to all those selected to participate in the program. In 2014, a full day of small-group mentoring sessions and assignments of senior leaders to each awardee took place on Wednesday, March 26; the leadership program continued throughout the conference.

Participants were grouped among three tracks: Basic Neuroscience, Clinical Investigation, and Clinical Practice. Session topics covered funding from NIH, PCORI, and private foundations; ethical, marketing, legal, and business considerations in clinical practice; developing careers that involve both practice and research; critique of research project ideas; navigating the academic and clinical workplace; and more.

Awardees will engage with mentors and peers throughout the year; some will present at the ADAA Annual Conference in Miami in 2015.

Eligibility

ADAA membership

Junior faculty or trainees, residents, postdoctoral fellows in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, or related fields who have received a doctorate or medical degree within the last five years; licensed clinicians

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About ADAA

ADAA is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and cure of anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, and related disorders and to improving the lives of all people who suffer from them through education, practice, and research.